This was my second ever brew, the first being a minor disaster due to high fermentation temperature. This one turned out excellent. I was shooting for something nutty in the area of Lost Coast's "Downtown Brown" or Big Sky's "Moose Drool". I missed both but made a tasty beer in a similar style.

I screwed up my initial boil volume and had to adjust on the fly. I doubt it made much difference but I include the gory details for completeness.

OG was 13 points higher than predicted, probably from partly mashing the grains.

I decided to try primary-only since I'd seen so much debate on the subject. With only 4.6 Gallons I didn't want to water it down in secondary to limit the headspace.

As I said this turned out very nice. I ran some bottles by friends who homebrew and they were very complimentary. This one is as good as any commercial version I've tried IMO. I just bottled an AG version with some tweaks. I plan to make this beer my "signature" brew, tweaking each batch a little to try things out and get it to be a brew that's all mine. How I love Nut Brown Ale!